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I know how you feel. Its a disaster. Its NOT worth to destroy &/or tape over something just to make something new.

Attack-Eyebrows intensifies.

**14. "GALLIFREY FALLS NO MORE!"

I have a dr who audio series

actually all 11 :(

@@dillondjenkins 12 now isn't as horrible as what we have now. So lets say 11 and maybe 12, Plus the War Doctor.

@@BHB-vf5tn due to the shameful and careless way the BBC has treated Dr who,maybe if private collectors are holding on to these,I think it could be an up yours to the bbc

@@BHB-vf5tn Really? By the 90's they were well into their search to recover old tv programmes and return them to the archive.

@@leefran71that’s bollocks tbf. At this point, if you’re holding a grudge because people destroyed stuff in the 70s, you’re just an arsehole. If I had anything that was lost, I’d give it to the BBC immediately, because I’d rather everyone can see it than nobody. Say what you want about them in the past, but they’ve been serious about archiving since the 80s and Dr Who especially has been treated so well.

Я тоже так думала..((

ProWrestlingEVE same here.

ProWrestlingEVE Me, thought maybe they'll soon be adding more to my add-on to Prime.

Ya

ProWrestlingEVE Yep...

I've preserved alot of old VHS home recording adverts and VHS documentaries

Not anymore

@@hothemeep1219 ?

@@larniieplayz6285 check the news

@@hothemeep1219 What s in the newa

@@swampymender4400 Phillips Morris said in April 2020 that he knows the existence of 6 missing episodes in the hands of private collectors

Yes it's such a joy to hear so many people have been given a chance to see this story, even more so when it was not truly fully appreciated from the remaining episode 3. Now thanks to Philip its becoming a fan favourite for second Doctor stories, and rightly so.

53 of his 119 episodes are still missing, not counting the later specials (Three Doctors, Five Doctors, and Two Doctors). So about 45% is still gone. However, as bleak as that sounds, there were 75 Troughton episodes missing at the end of 1978. With Phil Morris' finds, we now have over half of the original Troughton episodes back in the archives. With some luck and perseverance, hopefully the number of missing episodes will continue to shrink.

Well at least there’s now only 6 more Troughton stories with at least one missing episode because of animations

Hopefully there is still copy’s of those episodes still out there somewhere and may I ask what episodes would they be?

@@blairm383 According to the sales records, Sierra Leone is alleged to have been sold: Galaxy 4, The Myth Makers, The Massacre, The Celestial Toymaker The Savages and The Smugglers (basically most of Season 3, with exception of Dalek's Master Plan). They also had copies of The Ark, The Gunfighters and The War Machines there too. All of these prints, if by all accounts they likely remained there, were destroyed during the civil war when the TV station was shelled.

@@Da1Dez You honestly wonder what the BBC was thinking selling their vintage films to Sierra Leone.

He's a millionaire, so probably had loads of protection.

No wars there it's perfectly safe! Ignorance sometimes

I wouldn't cross the road to find missing Dr Who tapes 🙄

@@ninjabluewings 🤣

Boy you're talking about the Pertwee era :D

The feast of Steven: we don’t do that here

Sadly, Mauritius only bought 3 missing serials and all of them were returned to the BBC

Squicx 70s actually

ADarthTokuDalek nup ya nummy! 60s

patrick was 60s

Yes, but Nigeria didn't buy the episodes until the 70s...

It depends where they are. He's talking about keeping them in a cupboard for 50 years. You can't do that with film. But if the place has a good archive, good temperature, regularly maintained it will be fine. Africa obviously hasn't had a great time of it in the 20th century so you can forgive them for not having the proper facilities.

Van Y. As much as we'd like that, some episodes are gone forever, such as "The Feast of Steven" from The Daleks Master Plan, which was destroyed with no copies made :/

Wouldn't be the first time they recover an episode thanks to someone recording it at home, iirc part of The Feast of Steven was recovered that way

Van Y. I don’t think any episode of Doctor Who has been recovered due to home recordings besides the audios, restored color, and a few clips captured via a home film camera.

They won't. It's pretty much impossible. There is still 97 missing episodes left. 97! Not too mention there is only so many places they have to look. Plus they have a time limit since film does not last forever. As seen in this video where one of the rolls had dissolved into mush. Homemade video recordings were not possible in the 60's so we can't count on that. At this point any missing episodes they find is a miracle. But it will take the invention of actual time travel to get them all. I'm just happy that they all still exist in audio form. I still find that amazing to this day.

Yeah, at least with the audio they can continue animating the lost episodes. I honestly think for now, they shoukd just continue pursuing the animations

I wonder if they have axed the Fan Show

we can only hope

Much as I have had issues in the past with certain Fan Show people, I wouldn't want them out of a job.

I like Christel Dee, so she better be there for the next go around.

She can't last forever

GardenGnome118118 no, its a lost episode😂

I wish they'd just tell us where it is. If they told us the footage was lost then we can all move on with our lives...Keeping us in the dark is the worst thing.

You could always check Nigeria

game4brains 123 *97

One of those 97, "The Feast of Steven" from The Daleks' Master Plan, is thought to be permanently lost (as no kinescopes of it were ever made for international distribution thanks to it being a tacked-on and ultimately superfluous Christmas episode). Hence why I said 96.

game4brains 123 I am well aware of that.

game4brains 123 There is a rumor that a copy of TFOS was given to Hartnell as a gift by director Douglas Camfield.

I've also heard the show's restoration team speculate that a kinescope from a routine recording may be out there somewhere, but the chances of that and the rumor you just mentioned being true are immensely slim. In general, it's necessary to take rumors surrounding the missing episodes with a Dead Sea's worth of salt.

It's not the same anymore.... ;(

I feel like I'm forgetting something....... like there's something I should do at the end of the video?

*weeps*

FeelsBadMan

Dead joke. Just get over it XD it’s been many videos. Remember that Jodie will say it.

Russell Tietjen Then maybe they’ll check for them.

ha ha very funny

More like Ethiopia, but if it was there we'd have heard by now since I'm sure Phil must've been there.

WhelanProductions He did find Web 3. Someone took it between him finding it and him collecting it. Rumor is he knows who has it but who knows how much truth there is to that. Hopefully he's found more in his search.

Ian Turner Its valuable and probably makes that person feel special to have it. Hopefully whoever has it is storing it properly and eventually it makes it's way backmto the BBC.

Geeky CollectiblesReviews We can only hope.

They did find it. Someone stole it and is essentially holding it for ransom. Rumor has it he or she has offered to return it to the BBC in exchange for an exorbitant sum if money.

A strong rumour went round that Mr Ian Levine grabbed it because he was the one who put Morris on the scent in the first place - But no, I'm pretty sure this has now been well and truly scotched.

Hahaha I posted the same comment before reading yours! That's where my mind went immediately when he said that

& 13 likes. YAY! Content Whovian. 😊

Yes,my diamond

I love Marco Polo

I love everything about Doctor Who series(and I don't mind crude animation , too) , so I'll gladly accept invitation

I can't recommend them highly enough. They've also animated the lost episodes of half lost stories. So you'll need the actual DVDs to fill in the not-lost stories. It gives you a rough idea of how the original direction went.

Amen. I hope for all episodes to be found.

@@thomasm.longiii3752 Hate to break it to you but The Feast Of Steven had no film prints made so it was wiped and lost forever... Unless someone used a camera to record the entire episode but having to crank the camera for 22 minutes wouldn’t be something someone would want to do

indeed if any one who has a copy of evil return it

You know I want Season 4 back the most. But I'd put all the previous stories before Evil because we need more Ben and Polly

So far they have episode 2.

He found all Web of Fear and 1 subsequently went walkies. We may get below 97 yet.

04nbod it bugs me how a private collector stole web of fear episode 3 when he couldve just took them all, strange how he only took that one, I presume that episode must of been in another room waiting to be sent and someone just snuck in and took it

@@joshuahughes5761 It was unfortunetly. An engineer/someone working at the station took it to their office, meaning it was seperated from the rest of the group, that was the last known location of episode 3. It could have been stolen from there and it could be in the hands of a collector/doctor who fan

Others are known to be in the hand of collectors but they don’t want to return them. Which is amazingly selfish of them.

Jack Snelling Hopefully they’ll find it again or another copy.

@@marcse7en Or what if there are missing episodes because people from the future took them to avoid them becoming missing, hence, creating a paradox? Maybe we are living in the gap between the 60s and the period where people travelled back from to collect the episodes, lol.

Marco Polo (7 eps) The Reign of Terror (2 eps, animated for DVD) The Crusade (2 eps) Galaxy 4 (3 eps) Mission to the Unknown (1 ep) The Myth Makers (all 4 episodes) The Daleks Master Plan (9 eps) The Massacre (all 4 eps) The Celestial Toymaker (3 eps) The Savages (all 4 eps) The Smugglers (all 4 eps) The Tenth Planet (1 ep, animated for DVD) Power of the Daleks (all 6 eps, animated for dvd) The Highlanders (all 4 eps) The Underwater Menace (2 eps) The Moonbase (2 eps, animated for DVD) The Macra Terror (all 4 eps) The Faceless Ones (4 eps) Evil of the Daleks (6 eps) The Abominable Snowmen (5 eps) The Ice Warriors (2 eps, animated for DVD) The Web of Fear (1 ep) Fury from the Deep (all 6 eps) Wheel in Space (4 eps) The Invasion (2 eps, animated for dvd) The Space Pirates (5 eps) There are no more like Shada. The closest would be stories written for production but never made such as the unmade original season 23 and season 27. Big Finish have audiofied most of them, so they could be animated if they wanted I suppose... ;)

codyw1 thanks

in addition to those there is also the originally recorded and edited Planet of Giants episodes 3 and 4, which were likely never copied to film, and never broadcast in that form anywhere, so will never turn up They were recreated for a special feature on the DVD. I find it improves the story to be honest, even if the recreation is... rough

domestic video recording was VERY primitive I believe one recording was found, of The Space Pirates episode 2, which exists anyway, and was in a completely unwatchable condition Most people recording were recording onto audio tape, which is why we have all the soundtrack CD releases (which are out of print right now for some reason)

The BBC exported them to be broadcast on Nigerian TV.

Nigeria was colonized by the UK. I think it was apart of the Common Wealth, too.

Airmail, most likely.

This doesn't surprise me.

Doctor Who was shown around most of the commonwealth back in the 60s. The broadcasters would buy them and the BBC would send them copies in the post. No digital files back then! But it was a bit more complex because the BBC didn't want to be making new films for every sale. So they created a bicycling system. 5 countries could buy a story and the BBC may only make 2 prints, because once New Zealand finished showing the film, they would post it to Singapore, then Singapore would send it to Zambia. What we Who fans are hoping is that like Nigeria, the prints got forgotten and left in archives. Nigeria has sent back more missing episodes than any other country (besides Canada who sent back colour versions of Pertwee stories). Which is great but also worrying as it suggests that was the last stop for a lot of stories and if they are no longer in Nigeria, they may be gone. The Nigerian man saying he should destroy the episodes suggests he has done it before. And if there are only 2 prints in existence, Australia was efficient in sending back and destroying, he could have ended any hope for some episodes. There is nothing to find.

Good on Phil for determining to check these archives by hand. They got messages from the BBC to return stuff and Nigeria did, but clearly there are a few missed. Lets just hope some more archives were as lax.

Tim Buktu what? All the story’s like power of The Daleks?

@@blairm383 If it was on PBS, then yes. I had the bad habit of not writing down the titles. I am prepared to share these with a serious archivist.

Tim Buktu you’ll have to try get in contact with Paul vanezis about these episodes

Or contact the bbc

Tim Buktu anything?